We recently dealt with the “Hitler was a pedophile” bullshit, so now it is time to deal with another charge that is making the rounds, the “Stalin was a pedophile” bullshit.
Stalin was quite a wild man as a young revolutionary, robbing banks to get money for revolution, getting arrested, breaking out of jail, and always on the run from the law. Around the time of WW1, Stalin was hiding out in Siberia with some tribal peoples up there who supported the revolution. He was a single man.
When he first showed up, there was a 14 year old girl who saw him and locked eyes with him. For her, it was apparently love at first sight. Stalin hooked up with this girl and they mostly hid the affair from her family, but I think people got wind of it after a while. He even fathered a child by her, but he later abandoned her and he never met his son, who was raised by the girl.
At the time, sex between adults and 14 year old girls was completely legal under Czarist law, so this was perfectly normal and acceptable behavior at the time. In addition, in Russian society at that time, it was considered completely normal for grown men to have sex with and marry girls that age.
Anyway, sex with 14 year old girls isn’t “pedophilia.” If it’s illegal, it’s just statutory rape. If it’s legal, it’s completely normal and acceptable behavior. I believe Stalin also got involved with another underage girl later on. At the time, Stalin was a wild man who had affairs with quite a few women, not uncommonly running two or three women at once. He took rooms in homes from women and then ended up having affairs with them.
Truth is that there is no sex at all that is “pedophilia.” Pedophilia describes a mental state or possibly a mental disorder, often classed as a paraphilia, that a number of men have in which they have a sexual preference for very young children. It appears to be biological and they get wired up this way in the womb. There’s no cure for it. Hence you cannot outlaw “pedophilia.” If you did, you would be making thought crimes illegal. If the pedophile acts on his feelings and has sex with a child, that act is called child molestation.
Child molestation can be outlawed of course most always is. Also, you cannot promote “pedophilia.” This sexual orientation is wired up in the womb in a number of males. How can you possibly promote a biological condition acquired in the womb? Pedophilia cannot be acquired environmentally in life. You can’t turn into a pedophile. No one can. You either are one or you’re not. It is possible to promote or condemn child molestation though, as that is a behavior.
Is there any sex at all that is called “homosexuality”? There’s gay sex and that can be promoted or not, as it’s a behavior, but true male homosexuality probably cannot be acquired in life, as these men seem to get wired up this way in the womb.
Is there any sex called “lesbianism”? There really isn’t. Lesbianism is a sexual orientation that in many cases seems to have strong biological overtones. In quite a few cases, it seems to be acquired in the womb.